List of Hollyoaks characters introduced in 2007

Father Raymond then took over again from Kieron and started working at a new Catholic Church, St. Timothy's, it was here that he performed the wedding of Carmel McQueen (Gemma Merna) and Calvin Valentine (Ricky Whittle).

[4] After discovering her pregnancy, her mother Amy Barnes (Ashley Slanina-Davies) initially wants to have an abortion, but eventually opts for a state of denial, with only Michaela McQueen (Hollie-Jay Bowes) aware she is pregnant.

When Leah is playing outside the wedding venue she runs across the road only to get nearly ran over by a minibus driven by Maddie Morrison (Scarlett Bowman).

Aleksander "Alek" Malota was an Albanian immigrant, first appeared when Davey Thomas arranged for him to marry Jacqui McQueen so that he could stay in the United Kingdom.

A xxx " Alek returned for a short period in July 2008, when Carmel agrees to help him, arousing Calvin Valentine's suspicions.

Working as a reporter for the Chester Herald, Spike wanted to do a story on the Dog, or as Neville Ashworth had renamed it, The Jolly Roger.

The nautically themed opening night, complete with young men wearing sailor suits, led Spike to write an article which sold the pub as a gay bar.

went out on a date with her, leaving her son Tristan at home with Max and Tom, but Yasmin was more interested in talking about the evils of bread and the importance of exercise than in any romantic inclinations.

After Zoe's Film Studies lecturer, Adrian, offered to let the plagiarism pass if she would sleep with him, she sat alone crying and ripped up the cheque.

This period of the Ashworths being in France, leaving their house to Hannah and Gilly for the duration saw Melissa become a central character in the show's plot.

Hannah promised that she and Melissa would get through bulimia together and the girls soon started an extreme work out regime drinking only water and eating very little.

Melissa had complained about a headache during the barbecue and continued to feel unwell as, after being ejected, she and Hannah stood in the rain waiting for a taxi.

There was a montage showing the wires, drips, Melissa's bones sticking out and Hannah's family looking for answers back at her home.

Melissa eventually engineered a plot to escape to Milan with Hannah, through fear that if she stayed in hospital and continued to be force-fed she would have got fat.

The two friends successfully escaped the hospital the next day, but had to return to Hannah's home to retrieve her passport; where Rhys and Suzanne grab her to prevent her from going.

Neither she nor the rest of the family realise their guest, Niall Rafferty (Barry Sloane), is the son Nana forced Myra to give up at birth.

In 2009 it turned out that these pictures were worth quite a lot of money; unfortunately for the McQueens, Leila Roy (Lena Kaur) had painted over the canvas.

In the summer of 2012, Carmel left Hollyoaks for a few months to live with Nana after having an accident with a self-tanning machine leaving her with a very distinct scar.

Although Nana cared for Reggie she said her true love was a man named Billy Bickerstaff who worked in a local chip shop.

She forced her bandmates Jamie "Fletch" Fletcher (Sam Darbyshire) and Josh Ashworth (Sonny Flood) to let him join, although his abilities were limited to a very poor trumpet.

Later, Nige needed money to pay his suppliers, and he resorted to stealing Justin Burton's (Chris Fountain) laptop and having Sasha assist him in breaking into recently widowed Steph Cunningham's (Carley Stenson) flat.

On 20 November 2008, several months after the murder, the viewers discovered Warren was paying Nige to stay out of sight to continue the illusion Calvin has killed him.

raced to Simon's home, but by the time they got inside, they found him unconscious on the kitchen floor from vodka and pills, holding a photo of his son.

He is the godson of Kurt Benson (Jeremy Edwards), Ruth Osborne (Terri Dwyer), Rory "Finn" Finnigan (James Redmond) and Jambo Bolton (Will Mellor).

Harry appeared in the second and sixth series of Hollyoaks Later for Tony's wedding to Cindy Cunningham (Stephanie Waring) and for his holiday to Spain.

Right after this, Harry becomes a student at John Paul's school Hollyoaks High and becomes friends with his cousin Cleo McQueen (Nadine Rose Mulkerrin) who he begins a relationship with.

Harry explains to Ste that he didn't mean to kill Amy and that he thought she was still alive when he left her house, following an argument in which she fell and hurt her head.

Seeing Harry and the older man enter a room and hearing them discuss money, Tony interrupts them, believing his son to be involved in drug deals and discovers his job as a prostitute.

On a camping trip with Ste's children, Leah (Elà-May Demircan) and Lucas (William Hall), they are ambushed by Ryan who confesses to all of his crimes before running off.

Harry is stabbed to death by serial killer, Breda McQueen (Moya Brady), as part of her vendetta against bad dads.